The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has rejected a request from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to play two T20I charity matches in December. The proposed games were intended to raise funds for the victims of Cyclone Ditwah, which claimed 600 lives and caused $1.6 billion in damages to the island nation. BCCI’s decision comes despite India’s scheduled …
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Four key players will be missing when Pakistan’s T20 World Cup preparations go up a notch during a three-game T20I series against Sri Lanka next month. A host of key players have missed selection as Pakistan announced their T20I squad for next month’s three-match series in Sri Lanka. Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf and Mohammad Rizwan will skip the …
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Chess is very popular in Sri Lanka. Well over 500 players, mainly children and young people, took part in the 12th Dhamso International Chess Festival in 2025. A A C B Amarasinghe scored 9 points from 10 rounds to win the tournament. | Photo: From left: Mr Nuwan Karunakalage, Mr Chamin Dennis Livera, CM A A C B Amarasinghe, Mr …
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Opening batsman Pathum Nissanka let all hell loose living to his true potential as abatsman for the moment and a game stayer to pulverizing the Bangladesh attack to a career best exhilarating 187 clobbering off 256 balls decked with 23 boundaries and a sixe in near enacting his ODI double century exploits as Sri Lanka traded shot for shot in …
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The Indian Premier League has been suspended for one week amid the ongoing tensions between India and neighbouring Pakistan. Overnight, India accused Pakistan of attacking three of its military bases with drones and missiles, a claim which Islamabad denied. Pakistani authorities say 31 people have been killed and 57 injured by Indian air strikes in the country and Pakistan-administered Kashmir …
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Sri Lanka’s Women:s batters smashed through rendering India’s threatening bowlingr attack to nothingness in a show of strength right up to the lower order to meeting a daunting 276 challenge in a dramatic 3-wicket avenging of the lung opener loss in a game swinging 28 ball fastest fifty record bludgeoning by Nilakshi Silva to ultimate climaxing 8th wicket victory clanging …
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Shammi Silva has been re-elected as the President of Sri Lanka Cricket for the 2025–2027 term. SLC said that he was re-elected uncontested during the 64th Annual General Meeting of the SLC. His re-election was confirmed by the Election Committee of the SLC. This marks his fourth consecutive term in office and the third time he has secured the position …
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Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. “It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said. Hers was a stunning first-round win in the seven-candidate contest after …
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Bangladesh U19 Team will tour Sri Lanka during the months of April-May for a Youth ODI series. All matches will be played at the MRICS, Hambantota. Schedule DATE MATCH 24th April Warm Up 26th April First Youth ODI 28th April Second Youth ODI 1st May Third Youth ODI 3rd May Fourth Youth ODI 6th May Fifth Youth ODI 8th May Sixth Youth ODI
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I wanted to bring all 5ft 2in of him to mind. Aravinda de Silva, emerging out of the Lahore stadium’s pavilion, his mongoose eyes dancing on the night of March 17, 1996. It was my first time at the scene of Sri Lanka’s finest national moments, not just one of Sri Lanka’s great cricketing moments. This one cuts across genre, race, class, caste, recency …
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